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Gregor Mathes

Gregor Mathes is a PhD student and analytical palaeontologist at the University of Bayreuth and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research interests include conservation palaeontology, analytical macroecology, and data science. He applies novel statistical tools to the fossil record to gain insights about Earths history. Using this information about the past, he focuses on the conservation of recent biodiversity under current climate change.





Education

PhD. Candidate, Analytical Palaeobiology

University of Bayreuth

Bayreuth

Current - 2019

  • Working on climate-biodiversity interactions using mixed effect regression models and machine learning algorithms
  • Additionally contributing to various research projects of other team member covering sports ecology, macroecology, and geology. Providing help for programming, statistics, and data visualisation
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B.S., Analytical Palaeobiology and Earth System Research lab

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Erlangen

2019 - 2018

  • Thesis: The effect of palaeoclimate interactions on the extinction risk of organism
  • Focus on statistics, programming, and academic skills

B.S., Geology

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Erlangen

2018 - 2013

  • Thesis: Diagenesis of Halimeda
  • Focus on palaeobiology, applied sedimentology, and geochemistry/ petrology

Abitur

Hans-Sachs Gymnasium Nuremberg

Nuremberg

2013 - 2005

  • Thesis: Die Alpen - Paradebeispiel plattentektonischer Prozesse
  • Focus on German, Mathematics, English, History, and Physics







Industry Experience

Gregor Mathes is a member of the Conservation Paleobiology Network and currently chair of the training series sub-committee. He is a private lecturer at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung e.V. providing talks and classes on climate change and Earths system.

Lecturer

Hanns-Seidel Stiftung

Kloster Banz

Current - 2019

  • Lecturer for one week workshops covering topics such as mass extinctions or climate change



Teaching Experience

Lecturer

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Erlangen

2020 - 2019

  • Served as TA for foraminifera lecture in the microfossils cource of the master program “Analytical Palaeobiology”

Data Warehouse Solution

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Erlangen

2019 - 2018

  • Created a data base for the thin section collection of the Faculty Palaeobiology
  • Data base environment based on WissKI

Lecturer

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Erlangen

2019 - 2017

  • Invited talks on carbonate microfacies during the internationally renowned Flügel-Course
  • Focus on foraminifera and thin sections




Selected Data Science Writing

Gregor Mathes regularly blogs about data science, statistic, and data visualisation on his blog

Rethinking Chapter 2

Personal website

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • Second part of a series where I work through the practice questions of the second edition of Richard McElreaths Statistical Rethinking
  • Bayesian statistics

Rethinking Chapter 2

Personal website

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • First part of a series where I work through the practice questions of the second edition of Richard McElreaths Statistical Rethinking
  • Bayesian statistics

Introduction to ggplot2 (Part 1)

Personal website

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • Workshop on R’s ggplot package for data visualisation for the palaeobiology master students at Uni Erlangen

Introduction to ggplot2 (Part 2)

Personal website

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • Workshop on R’s ggplot package for data visualisation for the palaeobiology master students at Uni Erlangen



Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks

Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change

Nature Ecology and Evolution

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • Authored with Jeroen van Dijk, Wolfgang Kiessling, Manuel J. Steinbauer
  • Currently in revision

Biodiversity turnover controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change

YOMOS 2020

N/A

2020 - 2020

  • Online conference

Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change

Conservation Paleobiology Symposium

University of Bologna

2020 - 2020

  • A talk on the first project in my PhD schedule

A novel approach to define evolutionary units in Phanerozoic reefs

Conservation Paleobiology Symposium

University of Würzburg

2019 - 2019

  • A talk about a project from my master program

Anthropogenic impacts on benthic foraminiferal assemblages, Oahu, Hawaii

Forams 2020

University of Edinburgh

2018 - 2018

  • A poster presentation at my first academic conference.








Selected Awards and Honors

Best student talk

Conservation Paleobiology Symposium

Bologna

2020 - 2020

  • Presentation title: Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change

Master thesis with distinction

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Erlangen

2019 - 2019

  • Awarded for master theses with an overall grade below 1.2

Invited talk on carbonate microfacies

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Erlangen

2019 - 2019

  • Invited talk at the international course on carbonate microfacies about foraminifera and their applications

Winner of the 1st FAU International Science Slam

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Erlangen

2018 - 2018

  • The Faculty of Sciences hosted FAU’s first International Science Slam. Presentation title: Warning: the following presentation may contain foraminifera